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Nicholas Altrock ( September 15 , 1876 - January 20 , 1965 ) was an American left-handed Pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Louisville Colonels , Boston Americans , Chicago White Sox , and Washington Senators .

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio , Altrock was one of the better pitchers in baseball for a brief period from 1904 to 1906 with the White Sox. He was instrumental in the White Sox World Series championship in 1906 , going 20-13 with a 2.06 ERA in the regular season and 1-1 with a Series-best 1.00 ERA against the Chicago Cubs . An arm injury after 1906 ruined his career, but he hung on with the White Sox and Senators until 1924 , though he pitched very little after 1908 and made sporadic pinch-hitting appearances after that, including one in 1933 at 56 years of age. Altrock became a coach for the Senators in 1912 and remained on the staff until 1953 . During that time, he was noted for his antics in the coaching box and teamed with Al Schacht , the "Clown Prince of Baseball," for a dozen years to perform silly antics on baseball fields in the days before official mascots.

Altrock died at age 88 in Washington, D.C.

YEAR TEAM AGE W L PCT G GS CG SV GF IP H R ER BB SO ERA RSAA
1898 Colonels 21 3 3 .500 11 7 6 0 4 70 89 54 35 21 13 4.50 -8
1902 Americans 25 0 2 .000 3 2 1 1 1 18 19 13 4 7 5 2.00 3
1903 Americans 26 0 1 .000 1 1 1 0 0 8 13 10 8 4 3 9.00 -5
Whitesox 26 4 3 .571 12 8 6 0 3 71 59 35 17 19 19 2.15 5
TOTALS 4 4 .500 13 9 7 0 3 79 72 45 25 23 22 2.85 0
1904 Whitesox 27 19 14 .576 38 36 31 0 2 307 274 117 101 48 87 2.96 -15
1905 Whitesox 28 23 12 .657 38 34 31 0 4 316 274 89 66 63 97 1.88 20
1906 Whitesox 29 20 13 .606 38 30 25 0 7 288 269 95 66 42 99 2.06 10
1907 Whitesox 30 8 12 .400 30 21 15 2 7 213.2 210 76 61 31 61 2.57 -1
1908 Whitesox 31 5 7 .417 23 13 8 2 7 136 127 59 41 18 21 2.71 -8
1909 Whitesox 32 0 1 .000 1 1 1 0 0 9 16 6 5 1 2 5.00 -3
Senators 32 1 3 .250 9 5 2 0 4 38 55 23 23 5 9 5.45 -13
TOTALS 1 4 .200 10 6 3 0 4 47 71 29 28 6 11 5.36 -16
1912 Senators 35 0 1 .000 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0 18.00 -2
1913 Senators 36 0 0 4 0 0 0 2 9.1 7 5 5 4 2 4.82 -2
1914 Senators 37 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
1915 Senators 38 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 7 4 3 1 2 9.00 -2
1918 Senators 41 1 2 .333 5 3 1 0 2 24 24 11 8 6 5 3.00 0
1919 Senators 42 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 0 0 -4
1924 Senators 47 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 1 0 0 0 0.00 1
TOTALS 84 74 .532 218 161 128 6 46 1515 1455 604 449 272 425 2.67 -24
LG AVERAGE 84 83 .500 127 6 1515 1390 635 451 398 648 2.68 0

YEAR TEAM HR H/9 BR/9 SO/9 BB/9 SO/BB SHO WP IBB HBP BFP BK NW NL
1898 Colonels 2 11.44 14.53 1.67 2.70 0.62 0 5 0 3 0 0 2 4
1902 Americans 0 9.50 13.00 2.50 3.50 0.71 0 0 0 0 79 0 1 1
1903 Americans 0 14.63 19.13 3.38 4.50 0.75 0 0 0 0 41 0 0 1
Whitesox 4 7.48 10.27 2.41 2.41 1.00 1 2 0 3 296 0 4 3
TOTALS 4 8.20 11.16 2.51 2.62 0.96 1 2 0 3 337 0 4 4
1904 Whitesox 2 8.03 9.56 2.55 1.41 1.81 6 7 0 4 1222 0 14 19
1905 Whitesox 3 7.80 9.66 2.76 1.79 1.54 3 6 0 2 0 0 22 13
1906 Whitesox 0 8.41 9.81 3.09 1.31 2.36 4 5 0 3 0 0 19 14
1907 Whitesox 3 8.85 10.24 2.57 1.31 1.97 1 4 0 2 870 0 10 10
1908 Whitesox 2 8.40 9.73 1.39 1.19 1.17 1 2 0 2 532 1 5 7
1909 Whitesox 0 16.00 17.00 2.00 1.00 2.00 0 0 0 0 34 0 0 1
Senators 0 13.03 14.45 2.13 1.18 1.80 0 0 0 1 171 0 1 3
TOTALS 0 13.60 14.94 2.11 1.15 1.83 0 0 0 1 205 0 1 4
1912 Senators 0 9.00 27.00 0.00 18.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 1
1913 Senators 0 6.75 11.57 1.93 3.86 0.50 0 0 0 1 43 0 0 0
1914 Senators 0 27.00 27.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0
1915 Senators 0 21.00 24.00 6.00 3.00 2.00 0 0 0 0 17 0 0 0
1918 Senators 1 9.00 11.63 1.88 2.25 0.83 0 0 0 1 105 0 1 2
1919 Senators 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0
1924 Senators 0 18.00 18.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0
TOTALS 17 8.64 10.39 2.52 1.62 1.56 16 31 0 22 3433 1 79 79
LG AVERAGE 20 8.26 10.96 3.85 2.37 1.63 17 36 0 57 4120 1

NICK ALTROCK LEAGUE LEADERSHIP RANKINGS

1902 AL
SAVES T3RD 1

1904 AL
WINS T10TH 19;
GAMES T10TH 38;
GAMES STARTED T10TH 36;
EARNED RUNS 6TH 101;
WORST ERA 9TH 2.96;
WORST RSAA T9TH -15;
BASERUNNERS/9 IP 6TH 9.56;
WALKS/9 IP 5TH 1.41;
SHUTOUTS T6TH 6;
NEUTRAL LOSSES T4TH 19

1905 AL
WINS T3RD 23;
WINNING PERCENTAGE 5TH .657;
GAMES STARTED T10TH 34;
COMPLETE GAMES T6TH 31;
INNINGS PITCHED 7TH 316;
HITS 5TH 274;
ERA 5TH 1.88;
RSAA T5TH 20;
BASERUNNERS/9 IP 6TH 9.66;
WALKS/9 IP 5TH 1.79;
NEUTRAL WINS T3RD 22

1906 AL
WINS T7TH 20;
WINNING PERCENTAGE 7TH .606;
GAMES T10TH 38;
GAMES FINISHED T9TH 7;
INNINGS PITCHED 8TH 288;
HITS 8TH 269;
ERA 8TH 2.06;
BASERUNNERS/9 IP 7TH 9.81;
WALKS/9 IP 2ND 1.31;
STRIKEOUTS/WALKS 7TH 2.36;
NEUTRAL WINS T8TH 19

1907 AL
SAVES T9TH 2;
HOMERUNS T6TH 3;
WALKS/9 IP 2ND 1.31;
STRIKEOUTS/WALKS 10TH 1.97

1908 AL
SAVES T4TH 2;
BALKS T4TH 1

1909 AL
WORST RSAA 5TH -16


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